Chris Matthews: Eugene Robinson Washington Post Columnist; Elisabeth Bumiller The New York Times Correspondent; Gloria Borger U.S. News & World Report; Joe Klein Time Magazine Columnist. Topics: Obama’s riding high, but do Americans see him as too risky? Can Obama win over Jewish voters by November? contact Chris Matthews

CNN’s Late Edition: A special Late Edition "Wolf sits down with Republican Senator John McCain to discuss Iraq, Iran, and the struggling economy. Then, Democratic Senator Barack Obama answers questions from reporters in a live forum." [Unity Forum] At 7pm et, a one-hour special- Late Edition: The Next President. contact Wolf

Fareed Zakaria – GPS:Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "has swept through Europe – so, how did he do? Our panel of experts weigh in on the continent’s reaction to Obama, as well as how Europeans view John McCain. Plus, our roundtable of fascinating guests offer some startling predictions for the global financial mess. Where is the economy headed?" contact FareedFox News Sunday: Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) wraps up his overseas trip to the Middle East and Europe, while Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) hammers Obama’s assessment of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Discussion with Sen. John Thune, (R-SD) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). Also, Karl Rove on the race. email Chris [email protected]NBC’s Meet The Press:Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for the full hour. The program will originate from London — the last stop on Obama’s nine-day overseas trip to the Middle East, Asia and Europe. contact Meet The Press

Q & A: Chris Hedges Author, Collateral Damage. Hedges and his co-author Laila Al-Arian interviewed US military eyewitnesses who told them about Americans actions against Iraqi civilians and how those actions have impacted the Iraqi view of U.S. forces there. airs on on CSPAN at 8pm and 11pm et, Monday 6am et.

Religion & Ethics: Perspectives: 2008 Campaign: Update on the Candidates and Religion — Obama and McCain step up efforts to meet religious leaders and to reach religious voters. Cover: Pediatric AIDS Corps– Young American doctors are going to Africa to treat patients and to train local providers. Feature: Interfaith Wedding– The wedding rituals of a Hindu-Sikh couple honor the religious traditions of both. for broadcast times in your area click here

60 Minutes:The Executioner– In his first interview, infamous Boston mob triggerman John Martorano coolly explains why and how he murdered 20 people to protect his friends, family and his gang’s business. Steve Kroft reports. A Bigger Leap For Mankind — With the Space Shuttle program ending soon, NASA is planning to return men to the moon in preparation for a manned flight to Mars. Bob Simon reports. Springsteen – Back on tour with his E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen at 58 years old is still a passionate rock icon whose songs reflect his loves, his blue collar background and increasingly, his politics. Scott Pelley reports.

To The Contrary: Topics: 1- Worsening economy pushes women out of the workforce; 2- A new proposal by the Bush administration could redefine abortion; 3- Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR) on lowering the high rate of elderly suicide. Panelists: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); The Heritage Foundation’s Genevieve Wood; Women for Obama’s Megan Beyer; and Conservative Commentator Tara Setmayer. for broadcast times in your area click here

CSPAN’s Book TV Politics Sunday from 1 pm et until 6 pm et. link for the schedule. Special Note — After Words:Mahvish Rukhsana Khan author of "My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me" interviewed by Nancy Snow, senior research fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. broadcast times

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Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo, Friedman and Rich today. I doubt MoDo can type any more, given those claws, but she has produced a POS called “Stalking, Sniffing, Swooning,” in which she asks if a Citizen of the World can settle for Steubenville, Ohio. It’s utterly beneath contempt. Mr. Friedman’s column is titled “Texas to Tel Aviv,” and he says two of the most interesting new clean electron wildcatters are T. Boone Pickens and Shai Agassi. Mr. Rich writes about “How Obama Became Acting President,” and he says Barack Obama-branded change is snowballing, whether it’s change you happen to believe in or not.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got waffles this morning. Hoover is doing advanced studies in cause and effect, which means that nothing is allowed to be placed on a desk or dresser top. All things so placed will be poked at, batted, and studied as he investigates gravity. Sigh… Have a great day.

The Abbreviated Pundit Roundup has become one of the better features on Kos. It rarely disappoints. Dem’s translation of Tommy (FU) Friedman, for example:

Thomas Friedman: Like I said, give me six months, and I’ll remake myself as Secretary of Energy. It’s becoming my new favorite topic to give advice about. Today, I’ll explain what working class America needs is a compliant Congress to give T. Boone Pickens tax breaks because the poor fellow doesn’t get enough of them. The consumer will greet us as liberators – trust me on that – but they’ll have to wait a few Friedman units to benefit.

I’m sure the media will pick up on this and will run with it for days on end. Of course, Johnny will say that Barack is getting more airtime and focus, but it won’t occur to him that it’s the usual negative press. Spit.

I will wait until tommorw to see what my knowledgeable collages on this sight say about the sunday morning talks.I do not want to throw a brick at the TV and deprive the kids of watching cartoons this morning even though the sunday talk shows are just that.

Iwatched it. I thought he did a nice low key job of defending the talking points such as whether to visit the military base because the Pentagon thought it was “too political”.
Should’ve given hin an armored vest, 500 soldier escort, and visit a market where things seem “Normal”. Rugs, anyone?
(((Barbara and David)))

The next time Johnny McTeleprompter visits our troops, we need to point out he’s just there for a photo-op. What will the right wingers say to that? Oh that’s right! They’ll say, “Johnny loves our troops…Barack does not!”. Had it been Barack Obama who had visited troops in Germany, he would have been booed by the knuckledraggers until election time.

We’re playing by a different set of rules again. Obama promised to bring a gun to a knife fight. This week will determine if that’s true. So far, not. He’s getting hammered with lies and he’s taking the high road trying to knock them down. Admirable but not sure it’s enough. And, personally, I was alarmed when he requested no ads from outside groups. McCain’s gonna continue to smear him and his negatives are going to climb. Meanwhile, Obama’s being the gentleman. This probably appeals to his base, but he needs someone out there to start attacking McCain. Loudly.
And, while we’re on the subject, I’ve seen no backlash to McC’s comment that Obama would rather lose a war than an election. If Obama had said that we’d be hearing a chorus of “Apologize”.

Just visited your site. Cool! The thing about McBush in the grocery store? When all the containers fell to the floor, making Big Noise, his reaction time seemed totally off. I wondered if he’d dive for the floor. But no. Anyone remember this old comedy routine (can’t remember whose): “Slowwwwwwwwwly I turned, step by step, inch by inch . . . .”

Trust me Solai….but every time the video of him saying that played, it turned off more people. Sometimes the element of surprise is the best way, meaning, when the election happens and Johnny McTeleprompter loses 85% to 15%, Americans will collectively say, “Surprise! We didn’t listen to your media base!!!!”. See? LOL

This is the ninth presidential campaign I’ve covered. I can’t remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency. How sad.

A very good point. The stupid people in my eyes will be the racists and the Hillary supporters who voted for John McCain. These two groups I will blame if Johnny wins it in November (and Diebold machines too…let’s hope there will be attorneys at every polling place in the country on election day!).

I saw that, too. But think of the reaction when Wesley Clarke said being a POW doesn’t mean you’re qualified to be Pres. There was outrage. And Clarke, himself, was drilled in every interview about that statement. Now, McC says something far worse and there’s nary a peep from the other dems. We’ll see if it’s addressed today.

Toby here? Did you see that auto ins companies just won a big victory in NYS? Expect your premiums to jump. Patterson signed the bill. Spitzer would never have signed it. Another DOJ victim to enhance the corps.

Wes Clarke could reasonably be accused of belaboring the obvious, and nothing else. What astonished me was the ineptitude of Team Obama’s response to highly orchestrated chorus of faux outrage from the wingers. My frist instinct would be to get friendly pollsters to poll the public: “To what extent do you believe that spending time as a prisoner of war enhances a candidate’s qualifications to be president of the United States: very little; somewhat; a lot?” IMHO, that would end it.

By contrast, McCain’s statement was silly to the point of embarrassment. Here this demented old guy who refuses to define “win” claming that somebody else wants to “lose.” Get back to us when you figure out what you’re talking about, Senator.

Here in north Texas, we’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Obama TV advertisements paid for by Let Freedom Ring, a 501c4 PAC. It seems strange that they’re spending that much money in Texas and I wondered if other parts of the country were seeing them also.

Open a door and they can’t run away from it fast enough. The only time they get near a door is when I come home. Then it’s a struggle to get through the kitchen. That pic’s about 4 years old. The screen you see was destroyed long ago as they tried to get at lizards on the outside sill. I borrowed a friend’s digital a few weeks ago but he had left the batteries in it for who knows how long and the inside of the camera was mush. Tama is such a lover that when he gets petted he purrs and drools. And I do mean drools. Must be part wet mouth St Bernard.

When I lived in Florida, we had many a tailless lizard about the place *s

I have a dog and a fenced in yard so the back door is often open for his convenience. So I’ve never ever been able to keep a indoor cat. But apparently I am the only one in the neighborhood with that problem. My next door neighbor has (last count) 19 cats -and all indoors. She’s very tidy tho, and they are all well cared for. Her husband says it happened because she’d say “What’s one more?”

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siri, it was delightful here this morning but it’s starting to get ookie out. Prediction is for the 90s today, and that always includes high humidity here in the Mid-Atlantic.

The Jewish vote only accounts for about 1.2% of the US population. The Jewish population in the US is about 40.3% of the world’s Jewish population which is .3% lower than Israel in total world Jewish population (as of 2006 census).

The total representation in Congress of the 1.3% Jewish population within the US total population is almost a 10.5% representative membership of Congress.

So what is Chris Matthews point? That’s a pretty low % of voters overall. Is this code for maybe no AIPAC funds going to Obama?

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I couldn’t afford 19. My vet did home visits to an older lady who had 25 indoors. My next door neighbor, in her 80’s, feeds all the strays. Catches the kittens and has them fixed. We haven’t been able to catch the 2 queens, however. I’ve got 1 of the queens and her two kittens hanging out on my front sidewalk most of the time. Little black kitten is curious and may be catchable. Little tortie is real spooky but h/she’s the one I really want to catch. There was one last year that I got from another neighbor but he turned out to be leukemia positive so I had to give him up. I’m afraid the majority of these strays are positive as well. Highly contagious so I really want to get the birth rate to zero.

scheiffer just asked hagel if anyone from obama’s camp has approached him about vp-ship and was he interested in it?…said no….asked reed the same question–not interested, didn’t say if he had been approached.

sensory overload from getting highspeed catv and unlimited long-distance calling in the same week…
and discovering vladimir kush’s paintings–friends are in maui and found them there..surrealist but more….i love them. wrote to him, then pissed him off then tried to fix it and made it worse…oh well. shouldn’t have written while in the ’too many toys’ pleasure-overload mode…finding his paintings in the middle of it sent my brain into a manic mode…(like he’s never had that happen /s)…..anyone who loves me can write and defend me at vladimirkush.com
here’s some of his work. google will get you more sites.http://www.linkinn.com/_Surrea…..h_Pictureshttp://www.blackpearlfineart.com/Kush-Bronze.html

taping shows and gonna take callie the collie for a ride and have a cone……..as my sister says ”blow the stink off”….clear my head.
already had breakfast, so, it’s ok to have ice cream for lunch….lol.

Tama won’t touch seafood. Canned tuna, salmon, fresh caught king mackerel, fresh shrimp, nothin’. He and Ptah can’t eat dry food, creates crystals in their bladder, plugging them up. If I catch this little tortie and she’s leukemia negative, she’s mine. The tan and orange on her stand out something fierce. Just gorgeous. I have to admit I’m feeding this little family, which is something I won’t normally do.

As a denizen of the West Coast I feel almost excluded from discussion on this thread anymore. I’ve just finished watching Face the Nation and won’t have an opportunity to see George S+too many letters for another 6+ hours as that show is broadcast from Seattle at 3 or 4 PM PDT. By the time I see any of these shows everyone else has moved on.

I was impressed with Bob Schieffer’s show this morning and his two guests. I tried to send the message below to CBS through the message board, but it wouldn’t function so I emailed it to [email protected]

to Bob Schieffer,

Your interview this morning with Mr. Hagel and Mr. Reid was one of the best Sunday morning “talking head” segments I’ve seen in a month of Sundays. Their rational and reasonable discussion of the issues and obvious disdain for the level and style of the McCain ads you showed was refreshing and gives one like myself on the verge of losing all respect or confidence in the political process hope for the future. Even when you tried to steer the discussion to “gotcha” type irrelevancies you intelligently and graciously allowed them to redirect the discussion to more relevant topics.

The only thing missing, for me, in Mr. Hagel’s logic based analysis of the Iran situation was any kind of acknowledgement of the FACT that Iran has plenty of real reasons to neither like the United States or trust their motives. The overthrow of the elected government in 1953 and installation of the hated Shah and the support for Saddam Hussein and his invasion of Iran in the 1980’s most immediately come to mind.

Lot of McCain ads in Michigan many slamming Obama. Obama is visible in MI with soft intros in who he is but seems to be trailing in the TV wars overall. Nothing hard hitting by Obama and the Dems on the failure of conservative and Republican ideology and governance.